“For you. I’ll thing about it, ok?” I offer giving him a very sincere smile. I missed doing that too. Feeling unabashed joy just by being in someone’s presence.

“Well, Tina it has been an honor to be in your golden presence, but I’m afraid our moment in the sun has come to an end.”

“Well it certainly was my humble pleasure to have the opportunity to have a lovely conversation with you, Derrick, I won’t forget it.”

“You better not. Besides if you remember nothing else, remember that when you find ‘the one’ you never let it get away, understand me?”

“Yes I do.”

“Now if you excuse me, angel, Ida and the kids haven’t seen me and in awhile and I’d like to spend some precious time with my family.” He says taking the bags from my shoulders. Immediately a man my age comes up and takes the bags from him.

“Ida? The kids?” I asked.

“Yes why?”

“Well when you said ‘her name was Ida’, I kinda assumed that she had passed on.”

“Child, no. Ida and I have been happily married for the past forty years now.”

“What about the guy she married and had kids with?” This is me suddenly being very confused and very, very nosy.

“It was a meant to be thing, Tina. You’ll understand it when you take care of this whole Bette thing, ok. Now I have to go.”

“Ok thanks.” I was all I could manage to say to him. I’m still shocked to say the least about this turn of events. But hey if he could wait for his one and only to finally realize what was in front of her, then I know I had to. “Bye Derrick, it was lovely to have met you.” He winks in response before continuing on with his family. Now on to find my own.

Now I know that I haven’t walked that far away from where Grace said to meet her. I know I’m at the right set of stairs where she would be. Maybe I should call her cell. It was at the time I pulled out my cell, that I became enveloped in this warmth. Like the sun beaming down on only me. I looked out of the airport’s massive windows, but was only greeted by a slight overcast LA afternoon. It had to be something or someone else. It was her, it had to be. I felt her, all of her. And it suddenly felt so fucking good to be home again. Throwing on my glasses to hide the evidence of my earlier waterworks show, I made a B-line to the woman I love. I just hoped that she isn’t being suffocated by my best friend.